APPLICATION OF REMOTE SENSING

AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY FOR

DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN VIETNAM

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

VIETNAM DISASTER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

ThaiLand, Nov 2019

Vietnam is one of the countries most affected by

natural disasters and climate change (in 2016,

20/21 type of disaster has appeared, excluding

tsunami)

Natural disasters, especially storms, floods and

droughts, are increasing in intensity, frequency,

causing great loss of life and damage to the

economy. In the last 20 years, about 10,800 people

were killed/missing by natural disasters; Average

annual loss is about 20,000 billion VND (1-1.5%

of GDP)

Impacts from the adverse effects of socio-

economic development:

INTRODUCTION

Disaster

management

structure

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Activities in applying space technology in Vietnam

UN-SPIDER Technical Advisory Mission to Vietnam (March 2013)

UNSPIDER and GITA’ technical Advisory Group to Vietnam (September 2014)

JAXA & Disaster Charter: 1st Request / activation: Collected Data, products from Sentinel Asia,

Disaster Charter, Vietnamese DANs, AIT, Tokyo University

DMPTC Collaborated STI (Spatial Technology Institute) for processing, mapping, survey and report

(BIG Flooding 2014, Quang Ninh province)

Sign MOU between JAXA, WRD, VAST (September2015); Building Implementation plans for 3

years of MOU

Request activation SA for big disaster: DMPTC Collaborated STI for processing, mapping, survey

and report for big drought (2015-2016) in Central Highland of Viet Nam, flood event (2016- 2018) in

the central area of Vietnam…

Cooperation to organization the 10 years anniversary workshop and the 4th JPTM meeting in Hanoi

(2017).

Request activation SA for big disaster: DMPTC Collaborated Remote Sensing Center (National

Department of Remote Sensing), STI for processing, mapping, survey and report disaster event

(2016- 2018)

Memorandum of Understanding

signing ceremony – Sep 2015 (WRD) – (MARD) & (VAST) & (JAXA)

The Parties cooperate and make efforts on the

following activities;

Development of a database system by past

satellite imageries of Vietnam for disaster

prevention.

Exchange of satellite data when disaster

happens. (JAXA will provide satellite data owned

by JAXA, such as, including but not limited to,

ALOS-2 data for WRD and/or VAST upon

request of WRD and/or VAST through Sentinel

Asia. VAST will provide satellite data owned by

VAST, such as, including but not limited to,

VNREDSat, for Sentinel Asia Step 3 Activities..)

THE INNITIAL RESULT

Strengthening the capacity of application of RS and GIS technology for disaster prevention in Vietnam.

Development of programs and projects on application of RS and GIS technologies for disaster prevention.

Inundation map in Quang Ninh province, 26/7/2015.

DMPTC and Spatial

Technology Institution

(STI) had cooperated in

developing inundation

map by heavy rain in

Quang Ninh province

(26/7/2015) using

satelite image of

Sentinel 1 (SAR)

Inundation Map had been

producted by National RS

Department of Ministry of

Natural Resources and

Environment (MONRE), AIT,

UNOSAT for reporting to

National Committee for Disaster

Prevention and Control

MODIS satellite

Drought map of Highland area and South Central

area on 2015. STI and DMPTC coorperation to produced the drought map for 5

provinces in Highland area and Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Binh Dinh

provinces.

October 2016 DMPTC & STI requested Sentinel Asia AIT processed

November 2016 DMPTC & STI requested Sentinel Asia AIT processed

Activated disaster in Sentinel Asia 06 event in 2018 and 02 event in 2019:

Flood in Khanh Hoa province (20/Nov/2018)

Flood in Nghe An, Thai Binh province and , Hai Phong city (18/Jul/2018)

Heavy rain in Nghe An to Ha Tinh province (3/Sep/2019)

Space Technology Institute (HoChiMinh city processing)

Heavy rain in Thanh Hoa to Quang Binh province (10/Sep/2019)

Landslide risk zoning map for Dien Bien province in 2018 (scale 1:50.000)

Inundation map cause by super tropical storm/ typhoon for Ba Ria- Vung Tau city

1. Cooperation to national and international system, private organization to improve the applying of space technology in DDR.

2. Support for monitoring and provide satellite images in case of disaster occurred.

3. The officer need more technical training for space technology, advanced technique.

DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

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